"Anything that enhances or promotes new data services is a good thing," Nokia spokesman Keith Nowak said. "But its got to be a little of everything. Good content is perhaps more important. You get all you can to eat, but you've got to have something good to eat." Because Web surfing can be less that filling, many carriers sell content such as games, photo messaging, screen savers or ring tones. Motorola recently launched its "Get Your Moto" campaign, offering flashier phones and more data services such as text messaging. And Sir Richard Branson showed up wearing nothing but a phone costume recently to launch Virgin Mobile. The joint venture between Sprint and Virgin Group offers wireless Web services such as text messaging.

Wireless carriers have a stake in getting you to surf the Web from a cell phone--and that means prices are falling, Mobile phone carriers have sold phones and services for ua protect grip case for apple iphone 6, 6s, 7 and 8 - graphite/quirky lime several years that allow subscribers to check sports scores or purchase merchandise online, But not many have, According to various estimates, fewer than two million of the nation's 140 million cell phone owners do any phone-based Web surfing, Small monochrome screens and the clunky interfaces that make typing a Web address into a keypad challenging are partly to blame, but pricing has also been a deterrent, Carriers generally charge by the minute or by the amount of data that is downloaded, significant hang-ups for people used to all-you-can-eat Web access via their home and work PCs..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) bans the use of cell phones on airplanes because of worries that calls could interfere with a plane's navigation system. Cell phones have to be connected to a wireless network to do anything, even if it has nothing to do with making a call. So a person simply playing a game or looking up an e-mail address stored on a cell phone could receive a phone call, and that would violate the FAA ban.

Sprint PCS is calling the new service "airplane mode," because it lets someone use a phone on an aircraft, Vo said, FAA spokeswoman Alison Duquette said that a cell ua protect grip case for apple iphone 6, 6s, 7 and 8 - graphite/quirky lime phone in airplane mode likely wouldn't violate the FAA ban, But the phones are sure to throw off flight attendants, who are accustomed to telling passengers to turn off the devices, "If you are a crew member, how would you be able to distinguish the difference?" she said, Vo said the possibility of confusion was taken into account, When in airplane mode, the phone will flash an on-screen message reading "Phone Is Off."..

Samsung is one of a growing number of wireless equipment makers to add such a feature to phones. Motorola sells two-way pagers with a similar mode, but the company's cell phones do not have the feature, according to a company spokeswoman. PDAs (personal digital assistants) with wireless connections, meanwhile, have the ability to shut down the part of the device that connects with a telephone network. Some even come with two power buttons, one to turn on the phone and another to turn on the PDA's programs.